How Homo Became Sapiens: On the Evolution of Thinking

by Peter Gärdenfors

Our ability to 'think' is really one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-awareness? The complexity of this activity is striking. 'Thinking' involves the interaction of a range of mental processes--attention, emotion, memory, planning, self-consciousness, free will, and language. So where did these processes arise? What evolutionary advantages were bestowed upon those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198528515
• ISBN13: 9780198528517
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"